Every marketplace quotes one headline fee and charges several. This free calculator runs the full 2026 fee stack for eBay, Etsy and Amazon on the same sale — every fee line, the total the marketplace keeps, what you actually receive, and the real percentage you paid. Pick your marketplace, enter the sale, and price from the real number, not the headline.
Estimates only, using the 2026 US fee schedules explained in our marketplace fee guides below. Fees change — confirm your category rate in your seller account before you price. Amazon FBA fees vary by size and weight; enter the fulfilment fee from Amazon’s rate card for your item.
How each marketplace really charges
eBay charges a final value fee on the total amount of the sale — item price plus the shipping you charge plus sales tax — which is 13.6% in most categories for sellers without a store, or 12.7% with a Basic store or higher, plus a per-order fee of $0.30 on orders of $10 or less and $0.40 above that. Payment processing is included. Etsy charges three fees on every order: a $0.20 listing fee, a 6.5% transaction fee on the price plus shipping, and payment processing at 3% plus $0.25 — about 10% of a typical order — with an Offsite Ads fee of 15%, or 12% for shops over $10,000 a year, on ad-driven sales only. Amazon charges a referral fee of 8% to 45% depending on category (15% in most), plus $0.99 per unit on the Individual plan or $39.99 a month for Professional, and FBA sellers add a fulfilment fee per unit plus the 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge that arrived in April 2026.
Worked example: the same sellers, checked three ways
Run the numbers the guides on this site use and the calculator should agree with them. On eBay, a $90 item with $10 shipping and no store costs $14.00 in fees — 13.6% of $100 plus the $0.40 per-order fee — leaving $86.00. On Etsy, a $50 item with $6 shipping costs $5.77: $0.20 to list, $3.64 transaction fee and $1.93 processing, leaving $50.23 of the $56 the buyer paid. On Amazon, a $100 item at the 15% referral rate, sold through FBA at a $5.30 fulfilment fee on the Professional plan, costs $20.49 once the 3.5% surcharge is added. The pattern is the same on all three: the cheaper the item, the harder the flat fees bite, which is why low-priced sellers feel fees most.
Go deeper on each marketplace
For the full fee schedules behind this calculator, read our guides to eBay selling fees, the cost to sell on Etsy, and the cost to sell on Amazon.
Frequently asked questions
Which marketplace is cheapest to sell on? On percentage alone Etsy is usually cheapest for handmade and vintage goods at roughly 10% of the order, eBay sits in the middle at about 14% on a $100 sale, and Amazon FBA is the most expensive at about 20% on a $100 sale — but each marketplace also brings its own buyers, so sellers choose on reach as well as fees. Does the eBay fee apply to shipping? Yes — the final value fee is charged on the item price plus shipping charged plus sales tax. Does Etsy charge on shipping? Yes — both the 6.5% transaction fee and the processing fee are calculated on the order total including shipping. Why is my effective rate higher than the headline rate? Because flat charges — Etsy’s $0.20 and $0.25, eBay’s $0.40, Amazon’s per-unit fulfilment fee — do not shrink when the price does. On a $15 sale they can add several percentage points.